Join us on a heartfelt journey as Paolo Bowyer, an autism dad, guides us through the emotional and transformative experiences of parenting a child with autism. Discover how Functional Diagnostic Nutrition plays a role in this journey, fostering personal growth and resilience. This episode delves into embracing challenges with courage and hope, offering insights and stories that inspire and empower. 🌟 Hear how Paolo discovered Functional Diagnostic Nutrition and how he can help you use this model to help you, the parent, to thrive. #AutismAwareness #ParentingJourney #Resilience #FunctionalNutrition
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In this enlightening episode, we sit down with Sheradon Orton (Sheradon.shares) to explore her transformative journey from battling mental health challenges to finding solace through gut health. Sheradon shares her personal struggles with depression, chronic fatigue, PCOS, and how a focus on fiber and natural healing played a pivotal role in her recovery. Discover the profound connection between gut health and mental well-being, and learn how small dietary changes can lead to significant improvements in overall health. Join us as Sheradon opens up about her experiences, offering hope and practical insights for anyone facing similar challenges. Tune in to hear her inspiring story and the science behind the gut-brain connection.
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Keywords: Mental Health, Gut Health, Fiber, Natural Healing, Depression, Chronic Fatigue, Sheradon Orton
Connect with Sheradon here:
https://www.tiktok.com/@sheradon.shares
https://www.instagram.com/sheradon.shares/?hl=en
https://www.facebook.com/sheradon.orton
Main Takeaways:
1. The impact of fiber on mental and physical health
2. The gut-brain connection and its role in mental well-being
3. Sheradon's personal journey and insights into natural healing
Sound Bites:
"Gut health and mental health go hand in hand."
"Fiber is so key for our gut health."
"There is power in belief and small steps."
Chapters:
Introduction to Sheradon Orton (0:00) Sheradon's Struggles with Mental Health (5:00) Discovering the Power of Fiber (10:00) The Gut-Brain Connection (15:00) Sheradon's Advice for Healing (20:00)
Join us on the Pure Living Family Podcast as we welcome Dr. Gwen Rosenberg, a licensed naturopathic doctor specializing in holistic and integrative medicine. In this episode, Dr. Rosenberg shares her insights on fostering true wellness through personalized care and understanding gut health. Discover how naturopathic medicine and innovative tools like FoodMarble can empower families, especially those with special needs, to thrive. Tune in for an enlightening conversation that explores the intersection of health, community, and resilience.
https://www.foodmarble.com/ - Use Pure15 for a 15% discount on the FoodMarble Breath Tester
You can follow Dr. Rosenberg here:
IG: @newlondonnaturalhealthcenter
FB: https://www.facebook.com/NewLondonNaturalHealthCenter/
https://www.newlondonnaturalhealth.com/
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In this episode of the Pure Living Family Podcast, we sit down with Dr. Andrea McBeth, co-founder and CEO of Thaena, to explore the groundbreaking world of gut health. Discover the science behind Thaenabiotic, the world's first stool-derived postbiotic supplement, and how it compares to traditional Fecal Microbiota Transplants (FMT). Dr. McBeth shares her journey from academia to innovation, offering insights into the microbiome's role in our overall health and wellness. Whether you're a parent navigating the complexities of special needs or simply curious about cutting-edge health solutions, this episode is packed with valuable information and inspiration. Tune in to learn how you can support your family's health through innovative microbiome-based therapies. If you want to learn more about Thaenabiotic and utilize the Pure Living Family discount check it out here: https://bit.ly/45QIzZ .
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Alicia Schoolman, a resilient individual with a remarkable journey, has overcome numerous health struggles that have shaped her into a stronger person. From wearing leg braces as an infant and a urinary system surgery as a child to multiple surgeries, chronic pain, fatigue, and chronic severe illnesses as an adult. Alicia's challenges fostered her resilience and ability to find joy in life.
Her path led her through gymnastics, competitive sports, and a career in coaching, ultimately transitioning to Functional Medicine. Despite financial challenges and a debilitating health crisis involving a gallbladder surgery gone wrong, Alicia persevered, finding healing through mind-body practices like Qi-Gong and adopting a holistic lifestyle to get her health, body, and life back following exploratory abdominal surgery.
Alicia's journey inspired her to help others facing health and life struggles. She became a certified personal trainer, delving into holistic approaches before the term "health coaching" became popular.
Battling idiopathic health issues during pregnancy, childbirth, and post-childbirth, Alicia explored holistic nutrition and researched the connections between toxins, autoimmune problems, asthma, allergies, and chronic pain/fatigue.
Her journey of cleaning up her life from toxins, adopting dietary changes, and addressing health issues serves as a testament to continuous learning in the realm of nutrition and wellness.
Facing severe chronic pain, fatigue, and a near-death experience from pneumonia, Alicia's dedication to self-discovery, honoring her body’s messages, and a toxin-free life led her to crucial dietary changes. Despite initial resistance, she embraced a gluten, corn, and dairy-free lifestyle, realizing the profound impact on her well-being.
Alicia's story is a testament to the ongoing journey of wellness, emphasizing the importance of adapting and learning throughout life. Through her experiences, she discovered her calling to assist others in their health struggles, blending her expertise in fitness, balance, stress management, reducing toxin exposure, and holistic health coaching. Her remarkable journey and commitment to continuous learning inspire others to embark on their paths to holistic well-being.
#HolisticWellness #ResilienceJourney #FunctionalMedicine #HealthCoaching #MindBodyHealing #ToxinFreeLiving
You can book with Alicia here:
https://www.pure-living.co/coaches/alicia-schoolman
Leeann Rybakov is a board-certified functional medicine health coach. As an immigrant from the former Soviet Union, and what is now Kyiv, Ukraine, she is bilingual in English and Russian. Her curiosity about food began when she realized at a young age that other families did not serve the same food that hers did, and the role that this played in her concept of self. She took this curiosity to study psychology and food via multiple channels.
Leeann attended the University of Michigan, where she found herself in the developmental psychology program. Leeann had the opportunity to work with the world-renowned Dr. Chris Peterson, who helped birth the study of Positive Psychology. Leann states: “In Psychology, there is this draw to label people and to find out what is wrong with people but Dr. Petersen’s work was finding what was right with people.” Leeann utilizes this teaching in all of her coaching sessions. She says that we need that momentum.
After graduating from the University of Michigan, Leeann was accepted to law school but she continued with her passion for food. With the encouragement from her husband, she enrolled in culinary school. She loved learning about food and how to prepare food for herself and her family. At this time she was active in running and that is when she had the idea to create a healthy snack out of the family staple she grew up eating, buckwheat. She called it “BuckWHAT” and she was able to develop and distribute it nationwide.
After 5 years in business, and 2 kids later, she realized that this business was running her health into the ground, and it was time to part ways. This is when Leeann sought out the help of a health coach to improve her own wellbeing.
Seeing how much her health improved she had this idea to combine her passion for healthy food and helping people and that is when she decided to apply to the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. Leeann has been coaching people ever since.
Her biggest coaching advice is to listen to your body to know which foods to eat. There is a lot of noise in the health and wellness space of which diet is superior but she says our body is always communicating with us and we need to learn to listen to it to know which foods are right for our body. What is right for one person, might be completely different with someone else. Leeann takes a personalized approach with her clients to create a plan for them to reach their health and wellness goals.
You can book with Leeann here:
https://www.pure-living.co/coaches/leeann-rybakov
#FunctionalMedicine #HealthCoaching #WellnessJourney #PositivePsychology
Mare Tomaski is one of the course facilitators for the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (https://functionalmedicinecoaching.org/) and one of the coaches for Pure Living.
Mare was introduced to Functional Medicine through Mark Hyman’s practice back in the day before he called it Ultra Wellness because she had this chronic strep throat that wouldn’t go away. He was in western Massachusetts and she was in eastern Massachusetts so Dr. Hyman referred her to the Marino Center in western Mass. Dr. John Bordick, Ed Levitan and his wife Wendie Trubow were her primary physicians. Sidenote: Ed Levitan and Wendie Trubow have recently released a book called Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great and Feel FREAKING AMAZING! Check it out here:
https://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Girl-Toxins-FREAKING-AMAZING-ebook/dp/B09H7SLC6D
These physicians coached her through the functional medicine model and started her on a food protocol. Mare could not believe that there was some form of medicine that was so closely aligned with naturopathic medicine, which was her reference point. She thought “this is naturopathic medicine with science behind it.”
The care she received at the Marino Center was absolutely revolutionary compared the conventional medicine that she was accustomed to. Between the homeopathy and the change of diet, that strep throat went away and it never came back.
She stayed in touch with all of those doctors for years and years and they referred her to The Institute for Functional Medicine who referred her to the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. Mare attended The New Mexico Academy of Healing Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she learned about structural integration, massage therapy, yoga, stress reduction and more. She later completed her training with the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy and became a course facilitator.
We are so fortunate to have Mare as part of our team at Pure Living. You can book with her here:
https://pureliving.practicebetter.io/#/65983f3fd22977ffc8bc4582/bookings?step=services
She says that the real value of Functional Medicine for her is getting to the real root cause or causes and getting a more complete healing.
Tune in to explore Mare's inspiring odyssey and the transformative power of Functional Medicine. 🌿 #FunctionalMedicine #WellnessJourney #HealthTransformation #PodcastSummary #PureLiving #HolisticHealth #FunctionalMedicineCoaching
Let me introduce you to Kevin Arnold one of our Pure Living Functional Medicine Coaches. Kevin has a pretty awesome story of his adventure of a lifetime of why he became a Functional Medicine coach. After graduating from the University of New Mexico with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting and working for a few years he decided to sell everything and move to Australia and New Zealand with his wife.
He talks about how he became frustrated with the American lifestyle where you work all day just to make ends meet. So he and his wife decided to move to Australia and have an adventure together. In the process, they bought an old Nissan Nomad van and lived in that to save money. They were able to save a significant amount of money over their 1-year adventure in Australia and New Zealand.
Once they moved back to the U.S. they bought a Sprinter Van to continue that lifestyle but in the process, Kevin was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis after losing vision in his right eye. Kevin talks about how this is how he found Functional Medicine and in particular the Wahls protocol. Dr. Terry Wahls is a physician who developed multiple sclerosis (MS) and experienced a rapid decline in her health. Despite conventional treatments, her condition worsened. Subsequently, Dr. Wahls began researching and applying dietary and lifestyle changes, notably adopting a nutrient-dense, whole-food diet rich in vegetables and adopting other wellness practices. For example, the Wahls protocol is explained more as a modified paleo diet that is plant-rich but also stresses the importance of quality proteins (wild caught/grass-fed/pasture-raised) it even promotes introducing organ meats due to their rich vitamin content. She saw significant improvements in her MS symptoms with this new diet and lifestyle, leading her to develop the Wahls Protocol, a dietary and lifestyle approach aimed at managing autoimmune diseases. You can read more at the terrywahls.com link below. Kevin saw similar results when he was able to get his vision back to where it was in his right eye with a new nutrition protocol.
Kevin is an example of what he terms the Patient who is the Practitioner of the future. Because he has suffered through this autoimmune neurological degenerative chronic illness, he can guide others through their own healing. I loved another term that Kevin used called “Diagnose and Adios” where he explained the divorce he had with his neurologist. His Neurologist said that if you are not going to take the medications I prescribe and listen to what I have to say, you can’t be my patient. Kevin just knew that there had to be more than taking a pharmaceutical.
We are so grateful to have Kevin as part of our team.
You can schedule with Kevin on our website here:
https://www.pure-living.co/coaches/kevin-arnold
Know that when you do book with one of our coaches, 10% of the proceeds will go to The Pure Living Family Foundation, a federally recognized 501-C-3 that exists to help support the parents of kids with autism or other chronic auto-immune illnesses like PANS or PANDAS.
Check out some of the other links that were mentioned in the conversation
https://www.alomoves.com/ - a mobile way to practice yoga
https://www.downdogapp.com/ - another mobile way to practice yoga.
Tyler Larsen is the starting center for the Washington Commanders in the NFL and is our favorite professional athlete in the entire world. In this episode, Tyler talks about his experience going through the autism diagnosis of his oldest son Ty. All while competing for a starting position in the NFL. He expresses how difficult and challenging it was to manage all of his emotions.
Tyler wants to help special needs dads face this diagnosis and know that they are not doing it alone. The reason he chose The Pure Living Family Foundation for the Cause to represent on his cleats is to help special needs parents, especially dads, to feel like they have a community that they can lean on. If you have a special needs child and feel like you need support, reach out to Tyler and to The Pure Living Family Foundation on social media.
Check out this episode and we are sure that you will become a huge fan of Tyler as well. You might even cheer for a rival team just because Tyler is on it.
Make sure you watch the Washington Commanders host the Miami Dolphins on December 3rd and check out Tyler's cleats. Go Commanders!
#specialneedsdads #autismparents #mycausemycleats #nfl
Tyler Larsen Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tylerlarsen58/?hl=en
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Let me introduce you to Marissa Conover another member of our board for the Pure Living Family Foundation. Her daughter Lila was diagnosed with Autism around age 3 after witnessing signs of regression for about 6 months to a year. About that same time, we were going through the same things with Theo. Marissa was introduced to Angela (Theo’s mom) through a mutual friend and Angela introduced Marissa to the bio-med mom’s group on Instagram. Marissa talked about what an amazing feeling it is to be connected to like-minded parents. Within the autism community, you can be judged and dismissed as a conspiracy theorist if you want to pursue a holistic diet approach when you try to avoid gluten and dairy and when you try to remove sugars and food coloring. Marissa said how amazing it is to be connected to moms who share similar beliefs and she feels like she will be connected to these moms forever. Our goal with this Foundation is to connect more parents in this space.
Marissa also talks about the process they went through to find a stem cell therapy, where they eventually took their daughter to Panama for this treatment. They really felt called to stem cell therapy because they had worked on the gut and they decided that they needed to break through the blood-brain barrier to help Lila reach her potential. We know that you will love Marissa as much as we do. You can connect with her on Instagram @marissaconover.
The Pure Living Family Foundation is a federally recognized 501-C-3 nonprofit. 2024 we have a goal to run 3 camp retreats for parents of kids who have been diagnosed with autism or other chronic autoimmune illnesses like PANDAS. We need to raise $20,000 in order to run these camps that will serve both as a networking event and an educational summit. We invite you to donate to the nonprofit to help support the parents of kids with special needs. You can donate here:
https://givebutter.com/PLFF
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One of the biggest challenges that parents face when their kid is diagnosed with autism or other autoimmune chronic illnesses is an existential crisis. The world that they visualized and imagined for their future just changed drastically. One of the main goals and ambitions of the Pure Living Family Foundation is to help support the parents of these special kids as they face their new reality. Hear how Samantha and Tyler Larsen processed the diagnosis and how they have managed this new lifestyle over the last 5 or so years.
We love their sincere, genuine, authenticity. We feel so lucky to have such an amazing woman, mother, and friend as part of our team. We know you will love her as much as we do. We are excited about the future we will build with this amazing family. Samantha is an amazing athlete and is implementing this tremendous passion for health and wellness to help her beautiful son Ty and share her findings with everyone that she can.
Hello friends,
Let me introduce you to my friend Abraham (Abe) Lopez. He is never serious, except for this podcast :). Abe lightens up every interaction with his sarcastic witty humor and we are so grateful to be able to work with him at the Pure Living Family Foundation. Our goal is to introduce you to our team at our Foundation and give you a little insight into what motivates us and why we want to serve the parents of special needs kids around the globe.
Abe talks about his experience of moving to the United States from Guatemala, meeting his future wife in elementary, and later becoming a father to his beautiful son Kingston, and managing the autism diagnosis while fathering his two other kids, Mia and Oslo.
This conversation helped me realize that men and fathers of kids with special needs really need community. Mothers are coded to speak about their experience with other Moms. But it is not masculine to speak about your thoughts and your feelings. I felt like I connected with Abe at such a deeper level from this podcast interview.
Let us know what you think
I can't express how grateful I am for this podcast interview with Dr. Cimikoski from the Utah Stem Cell Clinic. You will see why he is an incredible man. Dr. Bill tells us how he found regenerative medicine and how he uses Platelet Rich Plasma and Mesenchymal Stem Cells to treat people with chronic pain and illness. Everything from joint and ligament pain in what is called prolotherapy, to Autism, Congenital Heart Failure, and so much more with intravenous stem cell therapy. He helped restore my faith in our current healthcare system. There are providers who care about people and not just about making money. Dr. Bill is an example of that.
Theo was treated with stem cells on July 11, 2023, and he is eating everything in sight. We will keep you informed in the coming weeks and months to tell you how he is doing after the treatment. Listen to this podcast to learn more about regenerative healthcare and the latest research. The top athletes and celebrities around the world are getting these new-age medical treatments and you can too.
Check out https://utahstemcells.com/. Also please check out our health and wellness grant that we have set up through the Pure Living Family Foundation. You can read more about it here:
https://purelivingfamily.com/pages/plff-ms
Below is the link to the Duke University study that was done for the treatment of autism with stem cells:
https://academic.oup.com/stcltm/article/9/10/1137/6406967
There are several different autism studies at Duke that are relevant, as well. If you go to the link and then use the search engine at Duke to search around you will learn about a lot of different studies relative to autism and the use of stem cells.
Email us at purelivingfamily@gmail.com if you would like the PDF document.
#stemcells #regenerativemedicine
Use code #THEOBOY when booking
As we have talked more about Functional Medicine a lot of families ask us if we could refer a practitioner. I am grateful to have been introduced to Dr. Ray Andrew of Prestige Wellness Institute in Springville and Moab, Utah. A spry 56-year-old who loves to mountain bike and be active outdoors, he is super passionate about wellness.
Dr. Andrew has been in private medical practice since 2002. He graduated from the University of Utah and then went on to earn his medical degree at Saint Louis University. He completed his residency at the University of Missouri at Kansas City.
You can check out his website at https://prestigewellnessinstitute.com/.
We talked about how Dr. Andrew found Functional Medicine and how he continues to be passionate about learning. A member of the A4M fellowship since 2009, he attends 6-8 conferences each year, never able to learn too much to help his patients turn their health around.
Dr. Andrew’s practice is cash-based. This enables him to spend the time with each patient that is required to get to the bottom of their health challenges instead of sending them out the door with prescription drugs in six minutes, as insurance medicine does. Most people who see Dr. Andrew’s team have already seen a handful of insurance doctors, including specialists, and have not gotten the help they need.
With annual U.S. healthcare spending currently at $4.3 trillion, Americans have nearly the poorest health of the developed nations. Our financial priorities are completely backward.
At the Pure Living Family Foundation, one of our goals is to help families in need obtain the kind of timely health care Dr. Andrew’s offices provide. Families can apply for The Pure Living Family Foundation health and wellness grant here:
The Pure Living Family Foundation Health and Wellness Grant
Dr. Andrew shared with me an article on autism that he has not yet sent to press. The following segment really stood out to me:
"In a twist of irony, we are told that substances (vitamins, minerals, herbs, hormones, amino acids, fatty acids, peptides, etc.) that have supported human health for thousands of years may be dangerous and should be subjected to government approval, but the thousands of new chemicals we inhale, touch, eat, drink, and put on our skin every year require no safety testing whatsoever."
This led us to talk about the toxic soup that we live in today and how it impacts our special needs kids.
Dr. Andrew referenced the book, The Age of Autism: Mercury, Medicine, and a Man-Made Epidemic, by Dan Olmsted and Mark Blaxill.
Following is a short excerpt:
"But consider for a moment a commonsense test of the hidden horde hypothesis. By one estimate, in the history of mankind, well over 100 billion people have been born on Earth, 99 billion of them before 1930. If autism rates were truly 1 in 150 throughout that period, then we would expect to have seen close to 700 million autistic people born before Leo Kanner's first case in 1931. Yet, try as we might, we find no mention of these people in the history books, in literature, in folklore, or in family records of any kind. How could this many cases go unnoticed and unrecognized for so long? How could this many severely ill people have remained hidden, much less functioned adequately without help for so many years?...
... The reason reported rates are higher is because the real rate is higher. Some may find it hard to accept, the the truth is inescapable; something new and terrible is happening to a generation of children."
Studies referenced:
S.K. Katusic et al., "Case Definition in Epidemiologic Studies of AD/HD," Ann Epidemiol, 2005, 15(6): 430-7.
Carl Haub, "How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?" Population Today, February 1995, www.prb.org/Articles/2002/HowManyPeopleEverLivedonEarth.aspx.
I would like to introduce you all to Adam Vognild. I love his story of how he found the Functional Medicine model working as a Personal Trainer. Adam's wife, Meadow, is an allied professional working as a physician assistant in neurology. If you are wanting to focus on your health and wellness, you might benefit by working with Adam. If there is someone looking for a male personal trainer and functional medicine coach, he is your guy.
You can find him on his website here:
https://www.adamvognild.com/
https://www.ifm.org/
https://functionalmedicinecoaching.org/
Remember your kid will not have you as support if you reach burn out. Everyone loses when your health is poor. Remember to check out our website at www.purelivingfamily.com
Shawn
#functionalmedicine #healthandwellnes #totalwellness
In this episode we discuss a scary choking incident we had with our son Theo and how it's impacted the rest of our family.
Special needs life never calls for just an easy going day! We often worry the kind of stress that our daughter is exposed to because of this life and discuss getting her some outside help.
In this episode we get the pleasure of connecting with McKell Smith. McKell is a fellow autism mom who just so happens to be a speech and language pathologist. She shares her advice on where to start when your parent intuition feels like there might be something "off" in your child's development. We discuss early interventions, who to go to for support, and even IEP's.
With McKell's professional background, and also her experience as a mother of a child with autism, she developed this incredible eBook "6 Steps to Getting Therapy for Your Child"
Use the link below for 10% off this step-by-step guide to getting support for your child.
Angela & Shawn discuss little life changes that can add an extra layer of difficulty with special needs life.
Going solar has been something that has been growing in popularity in the last 5-10 years. I know you all have seen those ads while streaming your shows saying "Go Solar Now" with $0 down. Our goal here at The Pure Living Family is to find ways to ad relief for the parents of kids with special needs. We know that helping save costs could offer some relief from the pressure we feel. If you have ever been curious about going solar but didn't know who to trust here is someone that I trust with my whole life educating you on going solar.
We know that there are a lot of fears with going solar. In particular taking on more debt is a huge fear in our family. Or one common objection that we hear is that having a solar loan on your home makes selling your home more difficult. We address these concerns and more in this podcast.
We hope to help contribute to a clean New Earth and help special needs families in the process.
If you are curious to learn more, go fill out this form online and Bill and LGCY Power will contact you:
https://www.lgcypower.com/purelivingfamily/#see-if-you-qualify
LGCY Power has graciously offered to discount the cost of the system and to donate to our non-profit that we are building to give scholarships to families in need.
#solar #solarenergy #renewableenergy #greenenergy
Any large gathering with children can be the most stressful thing. Add the layer of special needs and it gets just a tad more complicated anticipating all.of.the.things. In this episode Shawn and me (Angela) discuss how we "divide and conquer" for big social events. We also discuss Theo's wild and scary night (which involved the Heimlich maneuver and a 400 degree oven situation) and why we weren't even phased. Is that even healthy?
